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JASPER JOHNS (B. 1930)
Lot 111 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF SENATOR JACOB K. JAVITS AND MARIAN B. JAVITS

JASPER JOHNS (B. 1930)

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Closed20 April 2018

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USD 175,000

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JASPER JOHNS (B. 1930)
Target
screenprint in colors, on J.B. Green paper, 1974, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 'AP 3/9' an artist's proof, (the edition was 70), co-published by the artist and Simca Print Artists, New York, with their blindstamp, with full margins, in very good condition, framed
Image: 31 x 25 ¾ in. (787 x 654 mm.)
Sheet: 34 ¾ x 27 ½ in. (883 x 699 mm.)

Specialist note

"Using this design took care of a great deal for me because I didn't have to design it. So I went on to similar things like the targets, things the mind already knows. That gave me room to work on other levels. For instance, I've always thought of a painting as a surface; painting it in one color made this very clear.. ..A picture ought to be looked at the same way you look at a radiator." (Jasper Johns, Time, May 4, 1959, p. 58)